Your language skills (reading, speaking, understanding, and writing) are one key--if not THE key--to success. Life can be much richer if those skills are in place and running smoothly. You may not need to deconstruct (analyze) a complex novel in your lifetime, but you might need to read and understand a report for your job. The career or vocational path you take may never require you to design and offer in-depth presentations to hundreds of co-workers about a complicated topic, but you mig...